I think the Rolling Stones and the Yardbirds succeeded in doing homage and finding new in existing music forms ( in this case, ones that Mainstream was ignoring)
I often think of the Kinks and the Who too, and I am probably repeating myself here...
But the Kinks were trying to channel Big Bill Broonzy, and the Who were trying to channel Martha and the Vandellas.
They were white, skinny, and underskilled, but THEY FOUND SOMETHING in the R&B. It was valid.
What came out of that was 'heavy metal' which I hate. But on the way to that direction there was great great stuff.
I suppose Muddy Waters revisited and found something in Memphis Minnie and Robert Johnson, that he could homage and re-invent with.
Let's extend this beyond music per se.
Dylan is incredible in terms of visiting sources [musical, literary, other] and coming up with something new.
I think Ferlinghetti, at least in his later work with which I am familiar, did this.
A path for creation may be: When you visit/revisit/find music that moves you...
1-Play with it til you 2-Enter the Space of Mystery and 3-Find your place within that realm.
In the next sequential blog post we look at Dylan's Nobel Acceptance Lecture.
He says: "You pick up the vernacular. You internalize it." and that seems to be what I am describing above as you "Enter the Space of the Mystery and find your place within that realm."
The art of channeling mentioned above I see echoed here by Dylan: At the end of the Nobel lecture, he recalls Homer, saying “Sing in me, oh Muse, and through me tell the story.”
-Jack Vaughan
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